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Su Xiao gripped the warm jade slip tightly in his hand, his heart surging with emotion, unable to calm down. The last words of the Ancestral Master's lingering image were undoubtedly an "official confirmation" of their identity and qualifications!

From this day forward, the Qingyun Sect rightfully inherited the Liuyun lineage! The value of this jade slip is immeasurable!

Suppressing her excitement, she focused her consciousness into the jade slip. Instantly, a vast amount of information flooded her mind! "The Flowing Cloud Dao Body" contained complete cultivation techniques and formulas from Qi Refining to Nascent Soul, including energy circulation routes, supernatural powers and spells… various exquisite array diagrams, alchemy secrets, weapon crafting insights… all-encompassing and profound!

Although she couldn't understand most of the content at her current level, the Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment parts that she could see were already far beyond what she had learned before!

"Great! Great!" Su Xiao cried tears of joy. With this item, the rise of Qingyun Sect was just around the corner!

However, just as she was immersed in the immense joy of receiving the inheritance, the entire Flowing Cloud Palace suddenly began to shake violently!

"Boom—!"

Cracks instantly appeared in the spiritual sky above their heads, and the jade beneath their feet began to collapse. The surrounding space became extremely unstable, as if it would be completely annihilated at any moment!

"Oh no! The main hall is collapsing!" Shi Tie's expression changed drastically. "The inheritance must have been taken, triggering the self-destruction restriction!"

"Let's go!" Su Xiao snapped to his senses and shouted sharply. The inheritance has been obtained; this place is no place to linger!

However, the portal to where we came from has long since disappeared, and all around us is chaos. Which way should we go?

At this critical moment, the jade slip in Su Xiao's hand suddenly glowed faintly again, and a thin beam of light shot out, pointing to a seemingly ordinary jade wall in the corner of the hall. On the jade wall, a faint mark, of the same origin as the runes on the jade slip, flashed by.

"Over there!" Without hesitation, Su Xiao grabbed Shi Tie and Wang Hu and rushed towards the jade wall!

Just as they approached, the jade wall rippled like water, revealing a deep passage just wide enough for one person to pass through! The passage was pitch black, and its destination was unknown.

"Go in!" Su Xiao decided immediately.

The three stepped into the passage one after the other. The instant Wang Hu's last foot entered, the jade wall behind him instantly returned to its original state, and the entire Flowing Cloud Palace collapsed and vanished in a deafening roar, turning into primordial chaotic energy…

The passage was not a smooth path, but rather filled with spatial turbulence and tiny spatial rifts. The three huddled together, relying on Su Xiao's preliminary understanding of the array knowledge in the jade slip and Shi Tie's strength to move forward with difficulty. After an unknown amount of time, a glimmer of light finally appeared ahead...

……

Outside the Liuyun Hall, on a white marble platform.

While the various factions were still scrambling to figure out how to enter the light barrier, wary of each other, and even fighting each other—

"boom!!!"

A muffled, loud bang suddenly came from behind the light screen! The entire platform shook violently!

The seemingly impregnable "Myriad Streams Returning to Clouds" light barrier shattered like broken glass, dissipating into countless points of light! Revealing what lay behind it... a chaotic energy storm and the ever-collapsed and annihilating phantom of a palace!

"The formation... is broken?"

"The main hall... collapsed?!"

"What's going on?!"

Everyone was stunned! Then, a devastating energy storm swept out from the center of the collapse!

"Run!"

"Run!"

Screams and cries of terror filled the air as everyone desperately fled towards the edge of the cave, disregarding everything else! No opportunities or treasures mattered in the face of annihilation!

No one knows why the main hall collapsed, and even less does anyone know that the three members of the Qingyun Sect who caused all of this and carried the greatest opportunity had already quietly left this place of trouble through a secret passage, disappearing into obscurity.

The collapse of the core area of ​​Liuyun Cave was like pouring a ladle of ice water into a boiling oil pan, instantly triggering a chain reaction.

Centered on the Flowing Cloud Palace, the destructive energy storm spread rapidly like ripples, distorting space, breaking down restrictions, and causing the remaining palace ruins to collapse and be annihilated like sandcastles.

The raging torrent of spiritual energy swept across everything, completely detonating the traps and remnants of the array hidden everywhere. In an instant, the entire core area of ​​the cave was transformed into a deadly wasteland that devoured life.

"Run! The cave is collapsing!"

"Damn it! What's going on?!"

"Ah—! Help me!"

The piercing screams, desperate cries, the explosions of magical artifacts, and the roar of collapsing buildings intertwined in the dark spatial rifts and raging energy storms, creating a tragic elegy for the end of the world.

Those cultivators from various factions who were originally vying for the remnants of the side hall or trying to find other entrances no longer cared about any opportunities or treasures. They fled towards the outer perimeter of the cave like stray dogs.

The chief disciple of the Heavenly Sword Sect flew away on his sword, his face ashen, his robes torn, his previous arrogance gone. He was left with only three fellow disciples, all wounded and with fear in their eyes.

The young master of the Xuan Yin Sect transformed into a wisp of black smoke, desperately dodging the spatial rift that was chasing after him, his eyes filled with resentment and lingering fear.

The scarred giant from Black Wind Stronghold roared repeatedly, leading his remaining men in a chaotic frenzy, with some being swallowed by collapsing boulders or torn apart by the turbulent flow of spiritual energy.

The female cultivator from Hundred Flowers Valley conjured a silk handkerchief to protect the few people around her, struggling through the storm, her face pale with fright.

Those scattered independent cultivators and cultivators from small families fared even worse; those with slightly weaker cultivation levels were instantly reduced to ashes.

They arrived with hundreds of people, full of menacing momentum; when they fled, fewer than a hundred remained, most of them wounded, fleeing in panic like fish that had escaped a net. They didn't even know what had happened in the core area; they only saw the "Myriad Streams Returning to Clouds Formation" shatter, the Flowing Cloud Palace collapse, and destruction follow one after another.

All ambitions and schemes became a joke in the face of the might of heaven and earth. What did they gain? Aside from a few scraps picked up on the periphery, they didn't even see a trace of the treasure in the core area; instead, they lost a great deal of manpower and resources.

When these defeated soldiers finally fled Liuyun Valley in a sorry state and returned to Blackwater Marsh, news of the complete collapse of Liuyun Cave and the Qingyun Sect's suspected acquisition of the core inheritance spread like wildfire throughout the Southern Region of the Eastern Wilderness, causing a huge uproar.

All parties were shocked, suspicious, and resentful, but mostly they felt helpless. The cave was destroyed, the clues were lost, and any further exploration was futile.

As a result, Qingyun Sect, a previously little-known sect, was thrust into the spotlight, attracting a lot of attention, both overt and covert.

However, the three members of Qingyun Sect, who were at the eye of the storm, had already moved far away from that place of trouble.

Just moments before the Flowing Cloud Palace collapsed, Su Xiao, Shi Tie, and Wang Hu escaped safely through a hidden passage guided by the inheritance jade slip. That passage didn't lead directly to the outside world, but rather was a brief but extremely unstable spatial journey.

When the three recovered from a severe bout of dizziness, they found themselves in a secluded mountain stream on the edge of the Blackwater Marsh, with the familiar outline of Qingyun Mountain faintly visible in the distance.

"We're out! We're out!" Shi Tie roared excitedly as he looked at the familiar scenery, slamming his fist heavily on the nearby rock, sending pebbles tumbling down. Recalling the many near-death experiences he had had in the cave, he felt as if he had lived through another world.

Wang Hu collapsed to the ground, panting heavily, his face pale but filled with lingering fear and relief: "Finally...finally, I'm alive!"